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About Lexington weekly budget. (Lexington, Morrow County, Or.) 188?-1??? | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1890)
WEEKTjY BUDGET THURSDAY JVUY 24, 1S00 g&Tlu' notice marked ivith a blue pencil in dicatr that your aubxcript.ioit hnn expired, and if you wish the paper continued ynu should remit the price of nubiicrlptiim at oner. BRIEF NOTES. Babbitt-metal for sale at this odice. Mr. Fraser, Mrs. Cole and Miss Elam, of Milton, are visiting the fumilv of b. W. Burnett. B. Hope dug twenty-five laiye po tatoes from one hill last week, and the hills are clo.se together. Blair has just opened a new lot of Koods which should Vie seen by those who want good value for their cash. Dr. W. M. Lewis and I. It. Howard expert to start next week for a short trip through the l'uget sound country. Lemonade is one of the best aids to contentment (luring the present warm weather, and McAlister has the lemons. Mrs. Mtsan Ireland, ot ( neenville, is visiting her nephew, W. II. BeneMel and other relatives in Lexington and vicinity. Five persons wero killed, two injured and a large amount of property destroyed by a cyclone in Tiaille county, North Dakota, last Tuesday. Alva Leach and Tom Burnett went fishing in Mien (.'reck one day last week and caught thirty trout, some of which were a foot long. W. II. Benefiel and family, N. A. Leach and family and the family of W. B. McAlister will seek the haunts of the huckleberry next week. Rather warm weather for smoking just now, but he who wants a first-class cigar to enjoy in the cool of the evening 'Kii find just the thing at the City drug utore. J. L. Gibson anil J. M. White, Lex ington's new justice ard constable, are now prepared to attend to those who Hie inclined to commit misdemeanor or matrimony. Alva Leach and the little Misses Mill have the thanks of the Brmiur family for ice cream anil lemonade brought in while the mercury wn trying to climb out at the top of the tube. Any one who wants to raise potatoes that ure llrst-elass in every respect and exactly suited to this soil and climate should try the eat ly Ohio as grown by Uncle Juke Eamst of Social ridge. The largest greenback is woitl; $trt, 000. There is but one in existence. If it should happen to drift, into Lexington please do not bring it to the Bi dokt otlice, us we would net care to change it at present. Very few like to be "held up" by highwaymen, but Tom ILillcy always "stands and delivers" with a good grace when he is passing the Biihikt ollico with ice, aud the oliice towel, which is useJ to brain refractory victims, is un necenw.ary in his case. Following is the approximated popu lation of the following towns and cities of eaMtern Oregon: . The Dalles, ii, 00!) ; Pendleton, 2,')0; Baker City, 2.500 ; La Grande, 12,.'i00; Ileppner, 700; Union, i')0; Milton, 5.34; Athena, 50:1; Arling ton, 400. Alter an illness of lint a few days, Mrs. Win. M. Hooherdied last Monday night at her home north of Lexington. The funeral took place on Tuesday, and was attended by a large number of sorrowim: relatives and friends. The bereaved husband has the sympathy of the entire community. Mr. Karp, who was in Arlington Fri day, says he participated in a chase for a Initio rattlesnake which was found under a sidewalk in the business part of town. The reptile was driven from its hiding place, hissing the while in veno mous rage at its pursuers, and finally slaughtered with sticks and stones. D was as large as a man s wrist ana had twelve buttons. Knt Uretjnniiiu. Last Saturday, about four miles north east of Lexington, Elmer Bceiiian's team, attached to a mower, ran away while he was oiling up. The horses ran through the grain toward the house, making everything fly, and were finally brought to a standstill by the fact that the mower could not cut its way through a woodpile. The horses were uninjured hut the mower was a total wreck. The Timet-MiHiiifainerr is doing good work for The Dalles. It uses plain lan guage and scores the mossbacks of that city for not using their opportunities to make the city what it should be, and urges the citizens to wake up to their own interests and pull together instead of injuring themselves to spite each other. If the advice of the T.-M. were followed The Dalles would Boon be a city of which all eastern Oregon would be promt. W. T. McN'abh and W. M. Haanewood returned last Monday from Montana, where they have been shearing sheep. In some localities there the price paid is eight cents and board and in others ten cents without board, at which prices Morrow county's rapid clippers do well even after paying traveling expenses. The boys are not favorably impressed with the country visited, and say that any one who is dissatisfied with Mor row county should take a trip up there and be cured. Members of D company and all others interested in the organization will meet nt the armory next Saturday niuht. As t lie term of enlistment of the older mem bers lias expired, the commander of the regiment will be compelled to disband (lie company on account of the sboit roll unless it is' tilled out at once. Several of the retiring members have expressed a willingness to re-enlist, and it is hoped that sultleient new names will be ndded to retain the company organization. Every citizen shoo id be interested in this matter and attend the meeting. P. A. Worthington, of Weston, who lias been visiting relatives and friends in Lexington and vicinity, returned home this morning. Harvesting is going for ward on his lanch nortli of town, but he found badger hunting to be more fun than driving a header. The other day lie and one dog treed four badgers on one sage bush, or four dogs and one badger treed him, or he and four dogs freed one badger, or one badger treed him and four dogs, or well, anyhow be and the dogs and badgers had some kind of a fracas, but authorities diircr as to the detail, RIDGE ROCKETS. ! Notes of Local Interest Concerning Moun tain Valley and Vicinity. For llic BrwiiiT. If it keeps on getting warm it will soon be hot. Daniel Jones and family have removed to Long Creek. John tiurdane and family are rusti cating at Teel springs. A wagon road connecting Mountain valley and Alba is talked of. Our fanners are knee-deep in their hay fields. Some fine grain this year. White's sawmill has closed down for the summer. J. W. Corley recently sold bis interest in the mill. The genial gents who have been work ing on the Milton mining company's ledges will soon refurn to their homes, where they will remain until after liar vest. Messrs. Brown and Wattenburger, the prospectors from Alpine, have folded their tent and gone to the Greenhorn mining district. I hope they may find nuggets as big as as the stories that have been floating around about the ledges near here during the past few months. George Horsman and Eugene Corley were arrested on the oth instant for rob bing (be camp of the Butter Creek min ing company. They carried away some blankets, tinware, canned goods, etc. Their horses made too many tracks and were trailed to their ((topping place by seveial persons, who took t lie-m in cus tody. They were taken before the justice of Camas precinct, obtained a delay of trial, and were released on giving bonds to the amount of $200. Upon learning that a paity of searchers had found some of the things where the bovs had cached them forfiitiiie reference, I lorsman de parted for some foreign clime, leaving his bondsmen to settle for his non appearance at Justice Short's court on Tuesday. Corley appeared, plead guilty and was lined JiiO and costs, amounting in all to $15!). Jt is tho'lglit this example will have a salutary ellect, in that it will check the robbing of sheep camps and such other small acts of theft as have been oceiininir from time to time in this section of Umatilla county. Zl'V I.AmiKliUKAD. MiirvmN V.iu.KV, July IS, l;l. ECHO ITEMS. Fur the Bi'imikt. Warm over this nay. II. C. Meats was in our burg last Sunday. Noah lliesland ami John Warner are still over on I'nuet sound. A great many people are in l'endleton to-day "taking in" the circus. Haying has began in earnest in these parts. Very little grain will be tbieshed here this year. IColin McTnlian, u well-known stock buyer, who at one time resided here, has gone to San Francisco. Master Lawrence Matthews, who has been taking a little pleasure jaunt to the valley, has returned home. A. G. Bartholomew, ex-mall carrier, has removed to the newly-discovered mines on or near the Little Potts. About seventy-five people went to Pendleton to celebrate, and yet most of them say times are bard and they can't make a living. H. Lovmidge, who has been in Idaho, is now on the road with his horses,' w hich lie has had on the range there for several years past. The mail between this place and Ileppner is now being carried on horse back by Charles Graham, of Alpine. The vehicle purchased by the contractor is not yet in use. O. F. Thomson, of Butter creek, is in the mountains, w here he went to get lumber to finish a large tower for a windmill. James Taylor & Co. oro en gaged on the woik. Row. Echo, t'miUilla Co., July It, bail. THE NEICHBORS. Condensed Clippings from Eastern Oregon Exchanges. i'matiu.a coivyrv. I'onilliftou Dully Kast Orogoninii. George B. Clark, the well-known Van svele farmer, is in Walla Walla under j medical treatment. The majority of Umatilla county farm ers are insuring their grain against loss by I'ue. They think it better to be on the safe side and take no risk. W. II. Vorhies has had his header in operation twelve days at his Ftiirview ranch. He expects an average of but twelve bushels per acre fiom his 200- acre field. Hank Vaughan bought all the cattle offered for sale by George Barnhart Sat urday, thiity-tive head, paying an av erage of $17.50. The horses were pur chased by various parties. Bontley & Co. have sold to Charles Cunningham , the well-known sheepman, a ten-acre tract below Pendleton for $400 an acre. Pendleton diit is now In good demand among those who can read tlte "signs of the times." Four wagon loads of Kansas immi grants passed through Pendleton this morning. They said they were fleeing from the hot winds, drouth, cyclones and grasshoppers of Kansas and were bound for northern Idaho. A combined harvester brought from California is at work near Walla Walla. Shuti'iim & McCormiek will soon have a similar machine in operation ou their farms north of l'endleton. The Walla Walla harvester is working successfully. A small son of J. H. Cox picked up a piece of mineral on the gravel bar below Pendleton the other day and brought it home. A chunk of it was melted and found to be almost pure lead. Search will be made in the hope that a lyde will be discovered. The forfeiture matter appears to be in a state of delightful uncertainty. There are a number of excited people in Pen dleton who are itching to jump on a piece of railroad land with both feet, but they don't know just how or where to jump. All are anxiously awaiting some fuither and more definite infoi illa tion. T. 11. Lacefield, who has been en gaged in ielding the woodsman's axe near Kaniela, savs few have an idea of the magnitude of the tie and wood making industry up there. The moun tains aie full of men, and timlier claims have been taken up tar ba k into the forest. Men are needed, and goou tie makeis or wood-choppers can make from $2 50 to f3 a day. G. B McClellan, the well-known Xolin fanner, who is in the city, says things are gloomy down his way. lie looks for a general average of but five bushels to the acre. His biother, II. T. McClellan, who resides near Adams, thinks that some fields in that section will go sixty bushels. Umatilla county is fiowned upon and favored this year by a ca pricious providence. A number of Pendleton citizens and business men have formed an oiganiza tion to be known as the Arbuckle Coal and Mining company, and have filed on two choke sections of coal land lyingat the head of Butter creek, about forty two miles south of Pendleton, near the Fletcher coal mine, which is now being developed. The country in which the land has been taken has long been known to bo lich in coal, and has been frequently piospected, but the company of which Mr. Fletcher is manager has made the only active developments and present a good showing at their mine. It has been proven that the coal is of excellent quality, and if easy transporta tion facilities wero at hand could be placed on the market in largo quanti ties, as it has been shown to be practi cally inexhaustible, underlying the en tire legion mentioned. Millmi Eagle. The Milton cornet band lias disbanded says crops in the valley never looked better. An abundant yield is expected. New roller process machinery has been ordered, and the Arcade mill at Long Creek will be fitted np in such a manner as to produce as good flour as can be obtained from the outside. Canyon City News. The wild strawberry crop in the moun tainous districts of Grant county is abundant, mid the berries are unusually large. Just cause for complaint about the Si washes intruding and running game out of the country can now be found the woods are full of them. Crops are looking tine in nil parts of Grant county. Cultivated fields and the wild stock range are both beautiful to look upon at this time of year. Grant county horsemen have decided that the city use must go. This pony has served a purpose long and well, but like his original owners he is doomed, and in a few decades he will live only in stories that are told. David Blatiton informs the Nen-s that having is progressing in Bear vallev with a big crop, and thai the valley lias received a number of new settlers this summer, all being well pleased with the country. A sad mishap befell Wm. Dumtsn of the Middle Fork country last Thursday while he was using giant powder. A stick exploded in his left hand, blowing the hand completely oil', besides other wise injuring him. IT IS A FACT That for sonve months past tbo trade of Lexington has beon suffering from1 the want o-f a COMPLETE AND DESIRABLE ASSORTMENT -OF- Q.ENERAT, MERCHANDISE -ISCLCDIStt-. CLOTHING. FURNlSHiKG GOODS, IIS, SOOTS and SHOTS, THE MAN WHO CAN'T AFFORD IT. DRY eoo I Tobacco and Cigars, STAPLE SKD FANCY GROCERIES Humih for the man who is able to say In o manly, unblushing and sensible way, "I cannot nflord it." when tempted to buy Whnte'er will distress him when payday is nigh. Hurrah for the man. Though his way we insert, Tie has our profnundest. sincorest respect; To him be ever a friend or a foe Unchecked admiration we all have to show. And well he denerves it. He teaches the way Of boldly iunorinf; what people may say Or think In a matter which only eonceniM The one who, fur reasons, extravagance spurns. Wc honor Mm truly though seedy his clothes; Vt love himthough litilo of fashion he shows; Wc .rust him unquestioned though poorer than elay; We pray that our children may grow in his way. And Isn't he happy! J"st look in his face; Of care or of worry there Isn't a trace. H in conscience U clear. All the riches on earth Can't git e Mm the joy that doing Is worth. No slrtU'cmnn, no ruler, ho great soldier brave Is prouder than lie w ho i nobody's slave. "I cannot afford it." All praise to the man Who fearlessly says it and lives on that plan. V. Vodge, in Dttroit Free Press. Glacswaro, Crockery, tbTcticus, Etc. DESIRING TO SUITLY THIS WANT, WM. PENLAND, by WM. BLAIR, Manager, lias received ami opened for genoral inspection just such a Stock. We have Adopted tlio rule of "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS," Which keeps business movinit and enables tlio merchant to renew his Stock with Fresh Goods, so that the buyer uhvays lias a choice of the best. WF, HAVE ALSO SKCUIiED THE Agency for FRANK BROTHERS Implement Company, LAND CRANT FORFEITURE. SEASONABLE RHYME. Tlicru's much Hint wc nre nil intending to do, lint not wlillu tho weather's no warm ; We've ench a trrent wor k which we rneun to purmic, But not while the ueuthcr's bo warm. Oh, some time we'll rlio with the lark at the dawn, And earnestly labor with brain ami with brawn; Our overcoat then we'll get out of pawn, But not while the weather's so warm. We may IhII In love with reil-hea'leJ luss, But not w hile the weather's so warm; We'll some time refuse something cool In a K'lUfS, Hut not while the weather's so warm. Oh, sometime our efforts we never shall cense A kinrl ami lonit-suflTering public to please; We'll sometime write verses better than these, But not while the weather's so warm, iliicn'jn tivrning P'M. Fate of the Bill Still Undecided, but the Prospect Favorable, It will be remembered that porno lime ngn, the senate paused a for foituro bill. A substitute for this, did'erinn but little from it, was recently reported to the house by the committee on public lands, and last Iliuisdav tlio new lull was passed by the house. It was then re ferred to a conference committee, where it now stands. It is expected that the bill will he agreed to, hut the settlers ate not now in a frame of mind to re ioico before tho bill is actually a law, as they have been too often deceiver with vain hopes. lliu mutter is now liable to he settled any day. Hon. I'inuer Hermann ablv defended the bill and succeeded in vecurinj; an amend luunt that will protect settlers who have exhausted their land rights. PROSPEROUS STOCK REGION. There nre few, if tiny, towns in Oregon the size of I'rineville that serves as a depot of supplies for an area of country nearly seventy miles sipmro. "It is little wonder, when the facts are considered," says the I'rineville Sena, "that a single mercantile house in this town will some times sell in one day as much us $."1,000 worth of goods. The annual pnri'liae of stockmen's supplies in l'rinevillu is simply immense. No purely agricul tural "region is more piospero'is than our own. Our wealth is our stock, from the sale of which we get more prolit than the valley farmer can possibly ob tain from the sale of wheat at " cents per bushel." A I'rineville man informs the Albany I'smor-mt that one firm there did a business of 1-'."i,ii0 a year, until this year, when it will drop toSl'l.fHKi to f."ii,0Ol, due to the recent disastrous w inlir. until September 'd. The little girl of George Overt nrf fell from a horse and fiactured her arm on Tuesday last. Colonel II. I.. Howmer will remove his family to Walla Walla as soon as he can procure a suitable residence. Tho Eiiyle is informed that James Thompson and Haily Irons killed two elk ami u large hear on I.incton moun tain last Saturday. Jerry ISaker, an old-time resident of this valley, was struck by lightning on the 3d instant near 1'oineroy, Wash. Death resulted instantly, A combined header and thresher, re cently brought from California, is now nt woik in the grain fields near Milton. The header cuts sixteen feet; the thiesher has a twenty-eight-inch cylin der. From thirty to forty acres are cut per day, at a cost of $1 per acre for cut ting and threshing. Sixteen mules and live men run the machine. . Weston Leader. Mr. nnd Mrs. James Stanfield have moved to Athena. Drunken Indians are getting to ho en tirely too nunieious. b'nele Win. I.ieuailen savs his grape vines are literally coveted with grapes. ltos May, who has been hunting I hoises out towaid the Juniper country, savs that farmers never had a better! I prospect for a w heat crop than they I have this year. Home of the farmers about Weston : who had taken tho precaution to keep a i supply of w heat on hand for Hour and seed for another year, bio now deliver j iug it to the mill, feeling that there is no j danger but what there will-he an iibund ! ant harvest, since much of theg'uin is already filled and taking ou the golden hue which p.oclaims it beyond d. inner from dioulii and hot winds. THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER, His lunjjuiiire Is artless ninl free. And his fund of good Jokes is Immense; His handshake Is hearty and warm, Arid his manners polite to Intense. His clothes fit him snugly niu! trim, His neektie way up in ihe style; His hut the lutest thing out, A'ld bis hire wears ajirnhil smile. He hns the lime tables by heait. He is "chummy" at all the hotels; He calls his trudc by their flr.-t name, And leaves copies of all goods he sells, His trunk Is Just packed with "biir Join," He throws out his pet little ''baits;" He's determined to sell his new man, So he's oU'.-red him all sorts of "dates," The trade never w ant any noods. He's accustomed to slights and rebutr But get a man started and then He can scarce wait a day for hts "stulT.' Oh. a Jolly, krlxlit fellow Is he, This tourist of commerce and trude; Pon'teall him a "drummer," forsooth He's a full bund complete on parade. l'hil'ith Xirlh Ann rlrttn. BOOII Kit-Near Lexlnuion. July 21st. I.tiey r. wife of Wm. M. liooher aued s.l years. AND WILL KEFP IV STOCK ALL KINDS of FARM MACHINERY EMMUCIXrj Hushfonl and Fish Tiros. lVagoits, Ilcnny Hacks, Hodge Headers, Siravitsc Chilled Flows, Hock Inland Turf and Stubble, Eli Gang, Star Jl iinlniillx and 1'uinps, Etc., Etc. our PROPOSE TO GIVE FULL VALUE AND TO SHORTEN THE PI3 lanco for buyers who desire fair returns for their hard cash. Inspect Goods and learn our prices. WM. BLAIR, Manager, GROCERIESI BUSINESS is BliGUSTSTUSTG to MOVE -AND SO 18- "W. 13. McALISTEE, WHO HAS OPKNKD THE BOSS CASH STORE, (.V Til E rOSTOFFICE BUILD1SQ) AND IS NOW BECKIVIXO GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, INtl.l'DINO EVEUVTIIINO UNDER THAT HEAD. ALL FRESH AND FIRST-CLASS ! Choice Brands of Tobacco and Cigars, MY GOODS WE UK JIOUUHT FOR CASH, AND WILL BE BOLD FOR cash only, and at the very lowest prices. No stale Roods in the Boss Cash Stohb, but everything fresh except tho Hams, Hacon and Saltcl Salmon. fir"Cliickeis and Ejis taken in exchange for Goods. HENRY PADBERG, ritONlIETOR OF fiKANT flH'.STY. TO ERIDGE CONTRACTORS. "OT!rK 1H IlKItl-I1Y (ilVTN THAT W.Yb A j,roj,onln vuil he rw t ivr'l t.y tlio oniitv rit-rlt of Morrow bounty for oniMing ti fount y brl'l-.-e tit or in-nr 1oiiu'im Stutjon, cm Willow crcrk. J'hil) iiimJ h-'-i Unit Ions limy I if? mimi fit tin' t lerk'K (illi'-e. Muitl f.HU ''f hrlili.')' to ho ! fiy furt Uhih hy fiuhtfii h ' t in w I'M h, with t.M-iity-fool ii-.roiM )if on null hiink Hoi 'A til ho 111 1 lit 2 O ' l'if-k P M , fill Mnll'ltiW AiiL'Uhl 4, Ivrfr. Tho ("intno'i will , let tu tho lowest r''foitMhlti blO'h'r, Rlj'l IjoIi'Im will he ri'uuire'l u llic Imv diroo w,M. inaiKix, July 11, It-'JO. County .Indira. CHOP MILL .'oli Till: r riN VKSIK.N' i: oKTII'icl-: V H lvfjiu; ('reck Kk!o. Spring-sown jrrain is needing rain. V.. O. Woodall is making preparations ""r,r ''" I'r' i.ur.Mi t run 0,.: 1m., n.ul at miy to go below with a band of horses soon. u"",i "" Mu a ,nu""'"" 1 ""Tu. lim-K. Long Creek will have a new two-story graded school building hefore winter. About .VHXJO0 pounds of freight has ' ,AXTn,Mfl.E KA,,MKIW T KTn.B been shipped' into Long t reek thus far ( , Mrt ,.ly ,, hln ,,, ,lliy. this season. wliiidi iMir k .! i.-n Him will !. one Millhn ri-'h'-fl iU'jirliifnilll p -OMf 111 tin Vi.rl I, I'. H. O.ixp.uy. of ll.iy!.ick valley. ' i THE CITY DRUG STORE, LEXIXdTOX, Oil EC OX, (DR. E, T. GEOGHEGAN, Pharmacist and Manager.) KEEPS A FULL STOCK OFPUREJDRUGS AND MEDICINES! TOIL IT AKTI' I.r.8. f'HOICK l'KKKt'MKRY, NOTIONS', WMOOI, BOOKS, STATIONERY, CONFECTIONERY, Ct.'TI.F.RY, TI TTY TAINTS. OII.8, il,AS8, Ktc, Etc. A FINE LINE of TOBACCO and CIGARS. Till f'lni'kt llriimU nt Wiyi.H anil I.IIH IHIN tar .nrillrlnnl PurpMti. IW- TliKSiiKlTTlONS ( omtoi sukii Day ok NiuHT.Tft IZ' 1 ZZZZZ'7ZZZZZZZ1ZZZ1 II II II II II H II II II II II II II II II II II II mum t! t: i: o Ti;tt; MIDI) 00fl ii ii (i o I) n o II i) 1 D ii r o i IP nr. I) P O R(IO it ii n n i ii a ii iipiip uaun KF.KF.E K K K T KF.KKE K A K K K KEF.KK TTTTTT T T T T T T T T II- Si ll ! ! II- II' rASrr.li EASTERN AN!) WRMTKKN f;tniif-rH to know thitl lit Morrow fro'inty (tin hi; found ffoi- vnfunt land nrii Improved fluim for oiIe ohenn. nnd Unit the, "nil hrc f-aiifio ht otffllcd 'I lio prfont oppottntiHifS ln.nid iif.t hf- To-; ''-I ' ornf ' onf KKKP IN MIND THE PACT THAT LEX IrtKton It in the midst of a fine farming oonntry mid tlmt now U th jmgJ?Jgh5f; $1,00 18 NOT MLTH, Bl T IT WIIXOIVK ,ou the HI FT 1'r mr year.